Mitt Romney, yet another flip/flop/flip/flop/flip/flop

As much of the country at least tries to think about "Stand Your Ground" laws, today in St. Louis, Mitt Romney addressed the annual convention of the NRA and told the Association that he was their guardian angel. This is the same Romney who in 1994 said "I don't line up with the NRA."  Then in 2006 he became a lifetime member. Now that he desperately needs (he is that desperate) the conservative vote, he feels the call to "stand up for the rights of hunters, sportsmen and those seeking to protect their homes...."

Sorry if this is mixing the politics of the presidential campaign with the madness of Florida, and 24 others states', "self defense" laws. Perhaps with regards to "gun rights" less radical laws and more reasonable thinking would return some sense of civility to the political discourse and reduce the number of firearms fatalities in this country. Let's not forget that the NRA was one of the primary original backers of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" laws.

On a side note, at the NRA convention, Newt Gingrich, who addressed the convention after Romney, said that the United Nations should adopt a treaty "to extend the right to bear arms to every person on the planet."  Once can only imagine fear what Santorum, Palin or Bachmann would have said.


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